Forget ‘TechnoKing’: Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.

Scaling creativity in the age of AI
Scaling creativity in the age of AI

Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early humans’ innovation of natural pigments and charcoals for cave paintings to literal representation by the camera. The landscape of storytelling continues to shift under our…

Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation
Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation

Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more…

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not
Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) “Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written…

Grok’s federal stall is undercutting SpaceX’s IPO growth story
Grok’s federal stall is undercutting SpaceX’s IPO growth story

Downloads have fallen from 20m in January to 8.3m in April, paid conversion is a fifth of ChatGPT’s, the $0.42-per-agency GSA deal is now stalled, and SpaceX has rented out the Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic for $1.25bn a month. SpaceX’s S-1 f…

Nvidia no longer reports gaming GPU sales as a separate segment — posts eye-watering $81.6 billion Q1 profit thanks to AI boom

Nvidia to split its revenue streams based on deployment markets rather than product segments going forward.

AMD commits more than $10bn to Taiwan’s AI ecosystem with ASE, SPIL and Helios as the visible deliverables
AMD commits more than $10bn to Taiwan’s AI ecosystem with ASE, SPIL and Helios as the visible deliverables

Lisa Su’s Taiwan announcement covers advanced silicon, packaging and manufacturing partnerships for the company’s rack-scale Helios platform, set for deployment in the second half of 2026. AMD announced on Wednesday more than $10bn of investments acros…

Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant
Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant

Canva has spent the past year quietly embedding itself into every major AI assistant. First came Claude, then ChatGPT, then Microsoft Copilot. Now Google Gemini gets the same treatment, and the strategy is complete. The company launched its Connected A…

Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform
Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform

  Airbnb started as a way to book someone else’s spare room. It is now trying to become the app you never leave during a trip. The company’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences to the…